LFS Karting 2005 - Results / Pictures

[danowat]

Yes, it was a good day, although I was mightly pissed off with coming last in the karting, never mind hey, TBH, I felt a bit out of place, it was a bit wierd being around all the people that you do know, but don't know, so it was a little uncomfortable.
That said, is was great to meet the devs, great guys.

I'll let you all guess who won the karting, it was a dead cert for them to win anyway.

Dan.

[snewham]

Hi guys,

Just managed to find a train to take me home lol. Managed to find a floor to sleep on at around 3 am lol but you'll here about that later lol.

Everyone had a great time I think. Like Dan said, if you know people in game then it is a bit uncomfortable meeting them in real life but everyone was getting on with eachother as we got into the event more.

The Devs were really great people and were very keen to talk to us and try to meet some of the people who have benefitted for their last 4-5 years of work and it was nice for us to meet the people who have brought all of us together. We only have them to owe for that.

I'm sure you're dying for the results so here's the ones that I can remember:

P1. 4Sight Racing #1
P2. Triple 7 Racing
P3. Team Devs
P4. 4Sight Racing #2
P5. vMax Racing Team

that's all I can remember for now but I'm sure people will put the full results later. My photo's will be online tonight as well ;)

[keiran]

vMax came 5th !! :Looking_a what happened to Tristan and his hacksaw :razz:

Did anyone get kicked or banned ?? Any T1 pile ups ? :smileypul

Keiran

[Bob Smith]

P6. Me! :D (and someone else...)

Yeah. Was a good day. What time did everyone leave the IBIS?

Can't wait for photos/footage.

[snewham]

lol only 1 or 2 yellow flags and the whole 1 1/2 hour event. basically was conducted very well, racers were clean and very fast.

Three Jump nearly broke the track record with a time of 26:98 and the record being 26:84.

Will Dendy got a best time of 27:2 and the owners said that we were the fastest and cleanest group of people that they've ever had there which was nice :D

[snewham]

P6. Me! :D (and someone else...)

Yeah. Was a good day. What time did everyone leave the IBIS?

Can't wait for photos/footage.


everyone left about 1:15

Me, Tristan and Will Dendy went back to Shifty's house as he said that we could sleep there. So we spent 30 mins walking there and he wasn't there when we arrived. We called him about 10 times and waited around for about 20 minutes.

Eventually we had to call (and wake up) fordy and ask him if he had any space on his floor, about 1:45 now, so then we walk all the way to their hotel which took about 40 mins.

Then they had all of the gates locked round the back as we hadn't payed for a room and we had to sneak in so we didn't have to pay.

So we decided to climb a 7 foot wall to get into the hotel. Eventually we all managed to climb up on the wall and fall down to the other side.

We then crept through the courtyard at about 3 am now and into fordys room, grabbed a pillow and went to sleep lol!

Great Fun!!!

:D

[P1lot]

haha, I heard about this at breakfast.
Do you realise I was in the same hotel with a spare bed in my room?

It was great to meet you all, I personally had a great time karting and drinking with you. The devs are the nicest chaps you could wish to meet :)
The demo Cyber Seat was interesting (motion simulator)

[snewham]

yeh we didn't want to wake you though mate ;)

[ScHiZ]

Great time, thanks guys, great to meet you all :D
Cheers for the beer Scawen :)

[franky500]

Was really good.

Me and Stoney left the Ibis at about midnight. and Bob, the other driver was Widdowmaker.

It was really nice to meet everybody in peron.. weird. but nice.. i noticed there was alot more talking AFTER the karting than before.

Cyber seat was nice.. needs alot of work though.. need to at least get some force feedback on the wheel!!!

I heard about the "FUN" with the hotel wall this morning aswell. i hear there will also be a "PICTURE" too.


I like the fact that my team (me and P1lot, DE / ATC) came only 2nd Last to.. FORDMAN AND DAN!!!!
I also think that i should get an award for "most lapped person" (i hope i cleared the way well for all of you...)

The Devs were really nice guys. dunno why i gave victor a pound though.. hmm. oh well. Thanks for making the trip guys. Made it even better than it already was.

Some pictures will appear later. but right now i am only just home and am required to collapse.

Thanks for the lift Fordie, hope you fix your door so your wife does not have to climb through the window too LOL.

a VERY well organised and very succesful meet. Good to meat you all.

[dUmAsS]

Some pictures will appear later.

thats me in the chair! :eclipseeh

[franky500]

thats me in the chair! :eclipseeh

i think u crashed 2 minutes later.... :D

[dUmAsS]

i think u crashed 2 minutes later.... :D

damn pedals :shrug:

[the_angry_angel]

lol, sounds like you had an eventful night after we left scotty :D

Will / Fordie, well done on a ****ing excellant meet - it was amazing (despite being too scared to talk to Scawen or Victor properly :Looking_a)

Bob - thanks for the room for the night and putting up with me loud dribblin' ;)

Now, footage as I said last night I'm not guaranteeing the quality of it (I'm sure most of it was shit and wobbly, and I'm sorry for that :o), but hopefuly it should be good enough for whatever Tristan/Fordie/whoever wants to do with it. As for hosting it, I'm away from the house, work and possibly the intarweb completely (if the missus has her way) until Weds evening, but in the unlikely event of the footage needing somewhere to be hosted on before then feel free to text me (Tristan/Will has my number) and I'll get online somehow and sort some stuff out :)

Once again, it was a ****ing excellant time - nice to finally get some face time (that sounds horrific) with you guys :)

Same time next week? :D

Edit:
Cheers for the beer Scawen - but I was supposed to buy you guys at least one :o

[Bob Smith]

Bob - thanks for the room for the night and putting up with me loud dribblin' ;)
/me makes weird loud dribbling noise :p

You found your way back to the town center then? It looked like you were walking the wrong way...

I hope Scawen enjoyed his grilling too, we could only hold off the LFS questions so long. :tilt: I forget to ask about the future of the LX8 though, so if you want to fill me in... :) Oh and cheers for the crisps, essential pub food there. I didn't drive anyone mad while eating my (gorgeous) steak did I? Or how about when I poured the meat juice all over my leg? :D

I never got around to speaking with Victor. Perhaps I was put off by his scary new haircut. :shrug: Maybe next time.

Keep the photos coming :nod: (my camera didn't want to work properly indoors).

[RudiTurbo]

Pics of Vics new haircut pls! :D

[ScHiZ]

Highlights and the new barnet ruined by a sweaty race helmet :D

[ayrton senna 87]

me and tristan have just got back from some more kart racing :shrug:

brilliant meet, although i now have scars of battle from that damn wall :irked:

talking of scars of battle, u should see the size of the (now popped) blisters on AndyC's hand, its scary lol. and my back hurts!

it was great to meet everyone, and at last i got the honor of buying the devs a drink! i bought a britvic for scawen who was driving, and a red bull for vic :D and what a nice guy scawen is, he offered to buy US all drinks :D

i think we are looking at next years event in either buckmore park in kent, or daytona in milton keynes, but lets leave that for a while shall we!

and thanks alot to TAA, who watched everyone else having the fun, while we sent him around the place filming it! you HAVE to drive next year :D

[XRRoy]

looks like you guys had a nice meeting!


Victor now looks much more normall then on the old pictures of him, like this one for example:

http://i.boomtown.net/pics/9/9/9/52999/640x480.jpg


:D

[RudiTurbo]

Highlights and the new barnet ruined by a sweaty race helmet :D

lolol, this is Vic? :D
Couldnt recognize him :D

[ayrton senna 87]

seriosuly, scawen went on the cyber-magig and i said to fordman, wheres victor, it took me ages to find him! he looks so different, scawen looks exactly the same, and hes such a cool guy :D victor is a legend too, and schiz is proper funny. when he and cougar first came in, i was saying "who the hell are those?!?!" then when we got chattin we had a laugh, and i went in cougars LX4, which was pretty quick, so much wind too!!! awesome car

[franky500]

@ ayrton senna 87 that picture.... i believe the bald guy hiding behind LawVS is V4forlife (musta snuck in.....)

[ayrton senna 87]

omg i cant wait to see the pic tristan took of 3j at 3am :D

[franky500]

omg i cant wait to see the pic tristan took of 3j at 3am :D me neither.. come on 3j. HURRY UP AND GET HOME!!!... this is all asuming that 3j got out of fordies car ok... when i got dropped off 3j had to climb through the window!!!! the door refused to open... 3j wont be home for hours yet though.. flight does not leave trill gone 6

[snewham]

lol yeh same here :D

[ScHiZ]

3Jump 'hot on the plot'(tm)

[JamesF1]

damn pedals :shrug:
Logi? :p

[mkinnov8]

Had a great time watching you all having fun! grrr Next time!!

Was great to put a face to the names etc and the after-karting-mission-around-northampton-centre-
looking-for-a-pub-that-wouldnt-let-us-in was great fun too!

Well done to fordie for the organisation of it all and cant wait to see the 3am pic!

@Bob Smith! NOW I know who you are!
@P1lot Great to meet you, hope franky wasnt too crazy for you!
@ScHiZ - Mental guy, keep the photos coming

Hopefully, i think no one got my pic hehehe

[AndyC]

Just got in about 10 mins ago, finally!

Anyway, nice meeting you all and racing with you, its worth the blisters and bruises (i'll get some pics of those babies tommorow).

Had a great night aswell, the little adventure to find a room to sleep in sounds intresting.

But it was nice to put faces to names at last.

[ayrton senna 87]

lol schiz, your photography was excellent, even without the kebab :D

[franky500]

Hopefully, i think no one got my pic hehehe

:D

sorry about bad quality of my pics BTW.. the flash was not working ... UNTILL I GOT HOME. GRRRR

[tristancliffe]

I just got in too (and plugged the computer in, although I haven't looked at the onboard footage yet).

I had a great time to be honest. Walking around trying to get everyone together (some managed it on their own, others needed rounding up from the Station etc). Then a bit of a chat, as everyone became more relaxed.

By the time we got the track we all seemed fairly friendly. Then a whisper started. Someone (I forget who) thought they'd seen Victor in a BMW (as a passanger). Oooooh, are the Devs here? 5 minutes later, they had arrived!!!

Most people, myself included, kept away from them for a bit, as Scawen has admitted to being 'Bloody Nervous' meeting us all. Gradually, we all started chatting to them - but not as 'The Devs', we all seemed to treat them (at the track) like any other LFS fan!!! It was a bit surreal.

Race was good. I have HUGE blisters on both hands, and one on my left foot (from walking later), and a large bruise on my right leg (from Sundays Karting with Will - I'm a sadist aren't I!). Didn't do much overtaking for position personally, it was mostly lapping, and moving over for 3J and Will.

Pub afterwards was great, until the world's shittest Irish band started playing at nearly 3000dB where we were sitting (until we were shooed away). Needless to say, we left to find other bars (Scotty and Will don't look 18, so kept getting kicked out). After a few drinks (!), Scotty, Will and I departed for Shifty's, and the rest you seem to know.

I've got a few pics. Will post in subseuent edits as I get them off the camera (which I've left in my glove box).

Thanks to everyone for a great day, not least Fordman (for most of the hard work), Will (for giving us the idea in the first place of going Karting), Scawen (for buying us a drink each), Victor (for being very friendly, although he did keep frowning at Scawen's lap times), Bob/Ben (for being surreal, and totally mad when drunk), TAA (for filming non-stop, and returned the signed abuse from me as I drove past), Flo (for being so incredibly polite - how many times do I need to ask if he wants a drink before he finally says yes), 3J (for being 3J, but that is also another story I'd imagine), and many many more. Thanks.

Oh, and Flo (is it Florian? I don't actually know how to spell your name!), I have you LFS T-Shirt thing - I'll post it to you at some point...

Pics to follow.

[franky500]

Scawen (for buying us a drink each),.

i missed that bit :(

[ayrton senna 87]

lol tristan, HOW tired do we look!!!

[Bob Smith]

@Bob Smith! NOW I know who you are!
Implying you didn't when we were in the pub? You must pay less attention than Tux. :p

And why is everybody calling me "Bob/Ben". Just bloody pick one! :pillepall

Inspired by Senna's edit of Schiz's photo, I've attached two, one with online names, one with real names complete with yellow letting. If I've got any wrong feel free to correct me.


Edit: has anybody got a photo of me looking normal?

[franky500]

Edit: has anybody got a photo of me looking normal?
Thats possible??????????


EDIT:
Widdowmaker = Jim
V4forLife = Will
Mantis9 = David (I Think....)

nice pics (yes it was V4forlife Bob/Ben

[BBO@BSR]

... if somebody would like to provide the names of:
Shifty
3Jump
V4forlife (was it even him???)
Mantis9
Widdowmaker (sorry, it was noisy at the karting...)
Lippy
...I will update the photo. :)
.....

Three Jump= Jan
Lippy = Paul

:)

Looks like you guys had a great time there. :D

[franky500]

Three Jump= Jan
Lippy = Paul

:)

Looks like you guys had a great time there. :D

Yes.. a very good time we had.. although i believe we all have scars from the karting...

[ORION]

rofl nice pics there :D
funny stuff, especially vic looking totally different hehe

[Bob Smith]

Thats possible??????????
Yes, nothing is impossible. Though this is borderline.

Photo updated, all done :)

[ayrton senna 87]

shiftys name is mark

[ORION]

Now that's mystic already lol :really:

[LawVS]

Yeah, had a really good time despite being unable to get into the karts (I got into the overalls, but not the kart so that's my goal for next year) :P

Woke up at 5.45 and prepared for the long haul drive up north. Met Bob and Tux at Haslemere station at 7 and 7.15 and for the first 30 mins there was a deathly awkward silence. Then suddenly, conversation broke out as we approached the M1.

Arrived at Quality Hotel at 9.10 and checked in. The rooms were pretty decent yet Tux had a lot to criticise :D (i.e. the muddy looking footprint and slightly messy floor.)

The trip to the pub was one of the highlights of the weekend as it took us what should take 10 mins to get to the track, 40. Each one of us had made a detour at somepoint in the journey! We then spotted the pub and I panicked and got stuck in a maze of estates right next to the Thomas A Beckett!

The morning session in the pub was nice as we met P1lot and Schiz before the main congregation arrived. Then as me and Bob headed to the track, we spotted the devs going in the opposite direction in their M3 and Bob said that they recognised him from his avatar (ah, the price of jpg stardom!)

After karting, me and Tux headed back to the hotel in the dark and got lost again! Nearly got onto M1 by mistake! We got back and collapsed at about 1130. Morning was alright with a good 8-hour rest before trip back which ended up with us going the wrong way on the London Orbital and quickly turning around at J22! Sigh, we all got our own kicks from this weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed! Great to meet you all :) and apologies if I didn't seem talkative in the evening, just tired and had a lot on my mind what with uni and all. *sigh* ^^

[ayrton senna 87]

LOL ORION awesome!

u even got the pink flag :D

[snewham]

haha. I'm uploading my pics tmw and I think i've got some nice action shots which should be good :D

[ayrton senna 87]

argh! upload them now, there are hardly any!!

[tristancliffe]

That's all my pics (precious few I know, but I was busy!). I do have some from Whilton Park thingy.

Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

Edit: oooooooh, 975. Thats 974 spams, and only 24 spams to go (on the assumption that 2 in a 1000 posts are constructive)...

[seggons]

That's all my pics (precious few I know, but I was busy!). I do have some from Whilton Park thingy.

Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

Edit: oooooooh, 975. Thats 974 spams, and only 24 spams to go (on the assumption that 2 in a 1000 posts are constructive)...
ROFLMAO :p

[v4forlife]

it was infact me, i did turn up, eventually, after getting seriously lost. it took me near 3 hours to get there...from cambridge, lol, i even rode down the right street 45 mins before i turned up, but oh well. it was a good day, although short for me, and the karting looked very proffesional, especially will and marks driver changes. would have been nice if my slr was working but oh well, it happens.

btw, you gotta admit, my bike does sound nice, lol.

good to sorta meet you all

v4

[ScHiZ]

The winner

[Fordman]

Great weekend. Thanks to all that was there. Also, thanks to Scawen and Vic, for being more nervous than we was. Cougar for the awesome kit kar. TAA for my video.

And again, Tristan for producing the funnyiest moment of the weekend, yet again.

I won't go on, as most has been posted, but a couple of funniest moments for me:

In Race - Knowing will was behind me with helmet Cam, and me giving him the Bird

In Hotel - Will Tristan and scotty finally made it to our room. All was dark and slient, then Tristan pipped up, Good Night LFS World, the whole room errupted with Laugher.

In Hotel - Sneaking 5 guys out of a Hotel room

Well to be honest, there was to many, Will's face in the Kit Kar, as Cougar floored it, and lite up the rear wheels :D

Congrats to the Pro;s with Team Speak on Winning :D , yes they had there mobiles linked, to talk to each other.

Thanks to SC for the Beer :) and Nice car :smileypul

Well, thanks to absolutly everybody. Did I meantion Cyberseat testing :D

Glad everybody enjoyed it, now for some deserved rest.

Did I mention Cyberseat :ices_rofl

Best Wishes and Regards to all

Fordie

[three_jump]

right, just came back home.
Thanks to all guys who showed up there, was really great to meet you :) looking forward to the next meeting.

Here are the pictures:

[three_jump]

next ones

[three_jump]

sorry for the red eyes

[ayrton senna 87]

check this out

[franky500]

check this out LMAO

[three_jump]

enjoy

[Fordman]

We demand the Tristan Piccy :D

[three_jump]

:)

[franky500]

That's all my pics (precious few I know, but I was busy!). I do have some from Whilton Park thingy.

Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

Edit: oooooooh, 975. Thats 974 spams, and only 24 spams to go (on the assumption that 2 in a 1000 posts are constructive)... LMFAO and i know who that is too!!!!!

[three_jump]

the 3rd one is called: "the sleeping beauty"

[tristancliffe]

Look what I just found on my camera :S

Edit: Can't spell Maim, and have in fact written Main. :S

[three_jump]

last ones :)
I hope you enjoyed some of them

[franky500]

keep em coming... UR ALL INSANE (Spam post number 4)

EDIT: Did any1 in lime trees actually sleep?

[three_jump]

Did any1 in lime trees actually sleep?
Tristan did ;)

[ayrton senna 87]

nope, NO ONE in limetrees slept, not just in our room, they could hear fordie's snoring :D

[tristancliffe]

....... enjoy.......

We need similar pics of Bill Bendy...

[Fordman]

Better one :D

[franky500]

do u mean will? i dunno.. all i know is that we all forgot our shoes for the goose!!!!

[franky500]

Better one :D i believe it

[ayrton senna 87]

We need similar pics of Bill Bendy...

or den wilby, or wendy :arge:

[tristancliffe]

Another...

[snewham]

you got the photo of the wall?

[franky500]

you got the photo of the wall?apparently the background is better than the foreground

EDIT: I just realised how stupid this post actually was... msunderstood the post.... i think i need to rest..,

[Bob Smith]

3J I didn't realise you were getting quite so close to my face :S

Edit: this thread is currently averaging a post every ~3 minutes.

[vtx]

Looks like you guys had loads of fun!

Wished I could be there!

More luck next time :D

[tristancliffe]

here Scotty http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2539

[ayrton senna 87]

thats one large wall, but if u look, the gate was open on the left!!!

DOH :p

[franky500]

here Scotty http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2539

Anti climb paint on the fence? or did it look higher at night?

[ayrton senna 87]

u try climing that!

at 3am aswell

[tristancliffe]

apparently the background is better than the foreground

What? You're spamming here with more senseless comments than me!!! I do wish you'd think before posting. Even my quick spams are thought out (though not necessarily well spelt today, as I'm running out of energy VERY quickly, after 150 odd karting laps, 1 sandwich, one SMALL pizza, 4 hours sleep, and 10 miles of walking).

Scawen (pronounced like Scorn according to the man himself :P) and Victor (just Victor really): Post post post. We want to hear from you, and your opinions, improvment suggestions etc etc etc.

[SparkyDave]

What? You're spamming here with more senseless comments than me!!! I do wish you'd think before posting. Even my quick spams are thought out (though not necessarily well spelt today, as I'm running out of energy VERY quickly, after 150 odd karting laps, 1 sandwich, one SMALL pizza, 4 hours sleep, and 10 miles of walking).


And hacksaw Withdrawal!! :D

SD.

[franky500]

What? You're spamming here with more senseless comments than me!!! I do wish you'd think before posting. Even my quick spams are thought out (though not necessarily well spelt today, as I'm running out of energy VERY quickly, after 150 odd karting laps, 1 sandwich, one SMALL pizza, 4 hours sleep, and 10 miles of walking).

If i thought of every piece of spam i would go insane. but i will take your word for it and wont spam without thinking again untill tomorrow. The MAIN point in all of this is how good a time we had., well. .thats what i am being told anyway.


EDIT: i do not spam.

[tristancliffe]

And hacksaw Withdrawal!! :D

SD.

:O Cheeky Monkey!!! Just pleased the Devs didn't mention the hacksaw thing (the ONLY two people not to!)

[Bob Smith]

Actually can I ask what am I looking at on Will's back (at least that's what I think it was)? And what other injuries have people sustained?

Personally I've a blister on each hand (with my reputation in these parts my friends will never believe the truth), a bruise on my hip and have had to mentally injure bad jokes and many witty comments throughout the evening. Those I gave them out as good as I got them. :)

And yeah, Scawen we've seen you posting on other things today, a nice summary of your Saturday would indeed be interesting. Vic too. :)

Edit: Oh and I forgot to mention, our hotel room was right down Scawen's street, the plumbing was borked. :D We had two hot taps (hot water + cool refreshing toothpaste = :S) and one COLD shower (or so TAA told me).

[seggons]

Vic's all confused.

[Fordman]

Vic's all confused.

Sorry could not help laugh at that one.

[Tweaker]

nope, NO ONE in limetrees slept, not just in our room, they could hear fordie's snoring :D
Could not help myself to not laugh at this either :D

[Vykos69]

Damn, i missed all that fun for that: http://www.ocrana.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=44&page=viewtopic&t=1722 :p ;)

[Tweaker]

Ok you can stop rubbing it in Vykos!!!!!!!!!!!

[ayrton senna 87]

what u are looking at on my back is a bump, (cant remember what they were called) on my back, a product of the seat and the movement and it was about 1 inch out of my back, a bit graized, and quite red by the looks of it on that pic. worth it tho

no blisters, or sore arms, u light weights :p (joke i swear)

i would say andyC probably will be feeling the most pain today, he must have had a bad kart, and he used their yellow gloves, whereas scotty his teamie used some of mine. andy you scouse trooper :D

i just wanna say thanks to everyone who drove and spectated for coming, and drivers who all let me past when on track, and for fordman for swearing at me :D and had a good little race with 3J for the lead at 1 point, which was fun

it was great to see everyone was so aware of their surroundings, and what was happening on track, no one turned in on anyone, and only 2 yellow flags in 1.5 hours, wow!

[(SaM)]

Well allright, we call that bump a hunchback. Allright with you if we call you the Hunchback of Notre Simulator from now on?

[Fordman]

Damn, i missed all that fun for that: http://www.ocrana.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=44&page=viewtopic&t=1722 :p ;)

Nice one, see you in the Gravel then :razz:

[Widdowmaker]

[QUOTE=tristancliffe]
Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

QUOTE]

Ahhhh now lmao.....

Ive just shown this to the loverly lady in the footage, not telling what it was before she saw it!!!!!!!!

We had a great day yesterday, going along to the meet was in the way of supporting Franky500, meeting some more members of the ATC and CRC teams The added bonus was meeting every one else as well. It was great to put faces to names, not just for me but Gill aswell... The music was damn loud in that place, just to cover the engine noise and I couldnt hear a damn thing most of the time, just nodding to encourage conversation, not wanting you to repeat yourselves too many times....

I was never supposed to race, but it was a nice suprise to have the opportunity.It was noticable on the day, there were all standards racing, at such a high quality, (I never expected Scawen to go that quick!!!) It wasnt hard to work out the track, and it was easy to loose pace if you got too slow in a corner.

Bob m8 - I hadnt a clue what stratergy you wanted to run, went for 15 minute stints and you left me out there for ages. My arms were so numb after the stint that I could not hold a bottle of drink, pins and needles in my hands, and nearly poured it down my chest, so I left you out a bit longer.....

It was great fun - And no - Im not allowed a Cyber Seat.....

Great day - Thanks

Widdow

[Fordman]

[QUOTE=tristancliffe]
Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

QUOTE]

Ahhhh now lmao.....

Ive just shown this to the loverly lady in the footage, not telling what it was before she saw it!!!!!!!!

We had a great day yesterday, going along to the meet was in the way of supporting Franky500, meeting some more members of the ATC and CRC teams The added bonus was meeting every one else as well. It was great to put faces to names, not just for me but Gill aswell... The music was damn loud in that place, just to cover the engine noise and I couldnt hear a damn thing most of the time, just nodding to encourage conversation, not wanting you to repeat yourselves too many times....

I was never supposed to race, but it was a nice suprise to have the opportunity.It was noticable on the day, there were all standards racing, at such a high quality, (I never expected Scawen to go that quick!!!) It wasnt hard to work out the track, and it was easy to loose pace if you got too slow in a corner.

Bob m8 - I hadnt a clue what stratergy you wanted to run, went for 15 minute stints and you left me out there for ages. My arms were so numb after the stint that I could not hold a bottle of drink, pins and needles in my hands, and nearly poured it down my chest, so I left you out a bit longer.....

It was great fun - And no - Im not allowed a Cyber Seat.....

Great day - Thanks

Widdow

Widdow. Being an oldish member like myself, not only was great to meet you, it was also very nice of you to take a seat on the hop. Thanks for that, and also thanks to, Gill you said, for the double Take clip :)

See she didn't even race, and got her own personal Mention. Another one of LFS Famous Women :D

[P1lot]

Dedication award goes to - Da Hoe, who drove all the way accross (28 hours)... wonder if he's got home yet :Eyecrazy:

[Scawen]

Thanks for the funny pictures :D :up:

It was a good day, very nice to race and meet you guys :)

Looking forward to seeing the race highlights video! :)

[L(Oo)ney]

Victor looks to have changed a lot since the last pics i saw of him, he looks a lot "cooler" then before.

Nice to see you both chillin a little, but wheres eric? Havent seen him around for ages..

Btw, i liked this picture.. :D :razz:

[Chris_Kerry]

Gutted that I couldn't make it, I thought I might be able to come and spectate but no luck. However, hopefully I will have learnt to drive by the time the next one comes around. Looking forward to meeting you all, I think this highlights what a community this game has!

Great pictures, they're making me increasingly jealous everytime I look at them :P

Will had you had a long night on the cokes. You looked knackered on one of those photos!

[felplacerad]

So, did the devs utter any new info? :)

[Tweaker]

Hmm I only saw Scawen and Victor in the pictures, did Eric not make it? :(

[Rotary]

Nope, he didn't Tweek. It was posted earlier that only Scawen & Victor could make it.

[Fordman]

So, did the devs utter any new info? :)

You needed to be there to find out :smileypul

[Da Hoe]

Dedication award goes to - Da Hoe, who drove all the way accross (28 hours)... wonder if he's got home yet :Eyecrazy:

actually the way home went a lot better, took around 10 hours, so it was only 24 hours total ;). but it was worth it, had much fun :)

[felplacerad]

You needed to be there to find out :smileypul

:)

[mkinnov8]

You needed to be there to find out :smileypul

LMFAO!

EDIT: I dont spam, but I had a dream about some of you last night, and get that damn dodgy picture of me off there!

[Bob Smith]

Ah man I just slept for 12 hours (the hotel bed Saturday night was like a rock and not brilliant for my bruised body). Good idea for splitting the thread Scawen. :thumb:

Bob m8 - I hadnt a clue what stratergy you wanted to run, went for 15 minute stints and you left me out there for ages. My arms were so numb after the stint that I could not hold a bottle of drink, pins and needles in my hands, and nearly poured it down my chest, so I left you out a bit longer.....
Well I timed my first stint and it was nearer to 20 mins, so I left you out for precisely 22mins each time (going on two stints each). It was difficult to communicate since one of us was always in the kart and with the helmet on you can't make conversation during switchovers. My second stint seemed to last about an hour, but I think was only 25mins (difficult to check your watch even on the straights... kept drifting into the barrier).

My hands weren't much better, I didn't wear gloves for the first run and my thumbs weren't happy about that (couldn't move them for 10 mins). The second time I tried the gloves, which did prevent the thumb aching, but since the inside was so worn it gave me two marvellous blisters which went down overnight tonight.

Did you disappear straight after the karting, I don't remember seeing you afterwards in the pub? Hope the drive home wasn't too painful. :)

[tristancliffe]

I don't remember seeing you afterwards in the pub?

Do you remember much from the pub(s)? Apart from a few blurry highlights like the bouncer nicking your pint, and the bartender who looked (according to you, Karl and Will) exactly like Victor.

Victor - were you working in a Northampton bar on Saturday night? :razz:

[AndyC]

haha, when that bouncer nicked his pint lol. Quite a moment. I'll have a proper look at all the pictures when i get home from work because everyone is coming in and like what's that etc. But why do i look misserable on them all? lol. I did actually have a good time.

[three_jump]

I know what Tristan was dreaming about ;)

And I'm sure that he was the snorer....

3j

[Fordman]

I have a tendancy to agree there 3J. It was either Tristan or Will

[Swifty]

it was a good day. cant wait unitll next year

[Simon Savage]

Man i wish i had gone! i saw Senna's avatar today a kart track which looked like the Northampton GP and it said he was from northants so i asked him and realised there had been a huge meet at the track.
glad you guys had fun being a person who goes there about three times a year on average i wish i could have gone with you.

[seggons]

Did anyone record any footage, Pictures are starting to get a bit 'plain'? (apart from the editted ones :D )

[v4forlife]

i belive so, there was one guy running about with a vid-cam, and of course wills helmet cam

just waiting for the stuff to be uploaded
HURRY UP GUYS!!!lol

[Fordman]

Yes there is footage, just lots of it :yikes: Had a quick look, around 1st 2 mins, and there is a almost 90min tape used.

Obviously, I need to get this onto the Comp, edit the bits where it points at the floor :D and then get a file size that i can upload in less than half a day. So please be paitent on this. Tristan also has the Helmet footage that he is currently playing with.

Regards

Fordie

[tristancliffe]

Yes I have the helmet cam footage.

The good news is I recorded all of it!!!!! yayness
The bad news is the camera was severly affected by vibrations, range from reciever, and battery voltage.

So, I recorded just over an hour of footage. I can use about 20 minutes of footage. But most of it is out of the kart. I think I might have one or two complete laps (with only mild break-down during it), and clips of certain corners.

Obviously there's no need showing the same corners over and over again, so we're left with little usable interesting footage :(

Next year, I suggest we do some experiments. Mount the camera on rubber to damp vibrations. Ensure we get sufficient range on the camera to get the whole track. And record in such a way that we can adjust the tuning as we go - part of the problem was that after about 15 minutes of driving the tuning changed slighly, resulting in only static thereafter (obviously I reset the tuning between Will's stints).

So yeah. Send me footage, photos, ideas, and I'll try to knock out a film in the next day or two. Ideas include methods of showing the footage, music suggestions and the like.

Edit: 997 posts. 3 to go to 1000. Will I get there today (likely) or tomorrow (in which case I'll have to ignore your pleas for replies :P)

[Fonnybone]

Ah man, this is when i'd like to live closer to you guys. I've had a karting rage
for a few months myself and would have looooved to be there. So, who
still hurts ? Did they have any foam insert for the seats ? I know the last place
i went had such high and sustained Gs that i couldn't keep my head up at the
end hehe. ALWAYS turning...

Btw, wtf is satan doing there ?!! Oh and Victor, i have long hair and wonder
how i'd pull off the short hair thing sometimes. You almost look like a clothing
catalog model in that last pic :p

edit: not sure why the images get sorted like this...

[Fonnybone]

Edit: 997 posts. 3 to go to 1000. Will I get there today (likely) or tomorrow (in which case I'll have to ignore your pleas for replies :P)

You know what would be funny ? To 'shut you up' at 999 :p Ok, so it
wouldn't be that funny and i don't know how to mute people, yet, but
you'd still laugh with me, right ? hehe...

[mantis9]

Got back late last night, about 350 miles driven in the company car, 45 mins of karting, and a tough day on Sunday as well, I slept for 12 hours straight last night :D

Great day, really good to meet you all.

Good racing with you Schiz, for a first time karting you did bloomin great, we all did I think. Dunno if you left me out for longer on my first stint, it felt like it, kept looking for the pit board ;)
I still hurt, I think we all have identical hunchback bruises, some worse than others looking at that pic.

Thanks to Fordman for organising it all, and everyone else for turning up and putting on a good show. I thoroughly enjoyed it :up:

edit : for next time, I was thinking Birmingham wheels, not just because it is nearer to me :) , but its outdoor karting, 75mph twin engines :D Being heavier than the next driver makes less of a difference (apparently, Ive yet to go).
There is a hotel in stones throw of the track called F1 hotel or something, theres a big sign outside advertising rooms for £25 per night. Also plenty of pubs to choose from. A friend of mine is a race director at the track which could help. website (http://www.grandprixkarting.co.uk/setframe.htm?/birmingham-wheels-msa-circuit.php)

[keiran]

Tristan do it in a LFS style race :D Name tags like LFS and the results being displayed at the end like lfs :p Also have the "Race Starts" text at the start :D

Keiran

[snewham]

Tristan do it in a LFS style race :D Name tags like LFS and the results being displayed at the end like lfs :p Also have the "Race Starts" text at the start :D

Keiran



nooo don't talk to him. Don't let him get 1000 posts ;)

[LawVS]

Grr, I missed all this conversat-ion! Yeah, judging from all that chat I must've been REALLY quiet on the day! Oh well, it was still really enjoyable all the same. :)

[Vendetta]

omg tristan that strange look video is scary!!!

Looks like alot of fun :)

[three_jump]

hurry up tristan, we want some footage :)
I'm just hoping you are faster with this than on the track, I lapped you so often... stopped counting after 10...
3j

[ayrton senna 87]

tristan had 3 disadvantages
1. bad kart it seems
2. weight
3. his dog ear upset the aerodynamics

[LawVS]

Yeah I was wondering about what was sprouting out of his helmet :S

[OPK]

OMG, it´s the same old shirt Scawen is wearing there :o :D

Cooooool piccies, I´m jealous now :D
Seems you guys had some serious fun there, nice :)

[ayrton senna 87]

heres a vid p1lot made on his phone of scawen in teh cyeber seat, i made one but its too big, and p1lots vid shows more movement!

[(SaM)]

OMG, it´s the same old shirt Scawen is wearing there :o :D

Cooooool piccies, I´m jealous now :D
Seems you guys had some serious fun there, nice :)

Nah, it probably is a white shirt. But you know Scawen's been busy with plumbing and the garden, so it's gotten a bit dirty, hence the green/brown color.

[ayrton senna 87]

here are the results

PO.NO.......TEAM...........LAPS.......GAP......... ...FASTEST......ON LAP
1...4....4SIGHT RACING.....192...........................27.23.... .......163
2...7....TRIPLE 7 RACING....191......0:25.80...........26.98........ ...185
3...1....TEAM DEV.............184......7 LAPS............27.84...........138
4...5....4SIGHT RACING......183......8 LAPS............28.15...........129
5...10...V-MAX RACING.......180.....11 LAPS...........28.43...........179
6...8....BEN/WIDDOW.........180.....11 LAPS...........28.23...........153
7...9....DAVID/SIMON.........178.....13 LAPS...........28.59...........168
8...6....SKIDMARK RACING...178.....13 LAPS...........28.91...........106
9...3....DE ATC.................174.....17 LAPS..........28.48.............91
10.2....TEAM ESL..............173......18 LAPS.........29.55............158

closest finish goes to 4sight number 2 who finished 0:00.73 away from team dev, and skidmark racing finished only 0:03.66 away from david/simon

[seggons]

Got Board and played with a few pics :)

[dUmAsS]

rofl!!!

[Victor]

just came back home (after staying at S's place until some hours ago so i didn't spent two days driving back ;) )

It was a very nice day that Fordy has setup and I was glad to have been there, meeting some of the faces behind the names we know.

It was great to see how really well everyone was racing. Fast and clean, just how we like it :)

I did get some tiny injuries; a swollen vertebrae like aerton, a slightly bruzed right hip and I think I've gripped the kart-wheel too tight and put too much pressure on some nerve in my right thumb-kushen which feels really odd still (kinda half-numb and stiff). But hey, it was fun :)

Looking forward to seeing the final assembled footage!

[tristancliffe]

Well, cough, there's been a bit of a problem with the footage cough.

Mine is as I said it was - not great, and not a lot of it. But Shaun is having problems getting the footage off of his camera (blame TAA). He thinks his hard drive is on the way out, so he's gonna try another one (probably nicking it from work), and then mail me a DVD with it on.

I'm not entirely sure why I've been put in charge of making the final vid, but so be it.

And this is my last post of the day (#999), so I WON'T have 'got to 1000 on Monday' like everyone said I would. Ha! How many people had bets for Tuesday :razz:

Victor - back and leg problems are normal. But nerve damage is a bit worrying! It's not bad I hope... At least you didn't end up with helmet-hair like Scawen did.

<someone else whispers from stage left>

What? Scawen's hair is always like that? Nah.....
:D

[ayrton senna 87]

tristan, could u send me a DVD too pls?

shame to hear about fordmans demise

[tristancliffe]

It's clearly late Will (and Tuesday, hence my 1000th post!), cos Fordman is sending ME a DVD. I'm happy to send you a copy when I get it, but it'd be even quicker if you get Shaun to send you it directly.

And Shaun's not dead either. Just his hard drive is mortally wounded (probably had a pic of Bob in the footage which his hard drive didn't like or something).

But yeah - we'll keep you posted! I feel like a dev getting all these 'When will it be ready' questions on MSN...

[snewham]

lol SPAMMER

[Bob Smith]

Just his hard drive is mortally wounded (probably had a pic of Bob in the footage which his hard drive didn't like or something).
:really:

Oh and:

http://www.bird-man.com/images/attachments/_12_14_2004-spam.JPG

[snewham]

Mr Scawen himself. was looking a bit pale at the time :D :D :D

[Fordman]

Hi All.

Sorry for the delay. I know we are "all" dieing for some footage, but when I got home, one of the first things the wife said to me, is Solitare is stuttering. :really:

So not really paying much attention, I connected camara up, loaded Pinnacle, and done a transfer test ( Speed test of HD ) and it came back, Yes all is OK, you can transfer at 300mb per sec :really: Hmm thats not right.

Rebooted, bla bla bla, transfer at 500mb per sec :( ( DV requires 4000+ per sec )

So, as Tristan said, care of my work place, I will Perminatly Borrow :) our spare IDE.

Sorry for the run around.

Regards

Fordie

[seggons]

Think I found your prob Fordman.

http://www.kissmyfloppy.com/j330jf3/img3c99815a09c51.gif

[Fordman]

Think I found your prob Fordman.

http://www.kissmyfloppy.com/j330jf3/img3c99815a09c51.gif

HA HA, good one :)

[snewham]

Ok I've uploaded all of my photos to the Gallery on the 4Sight website.

View them here:
http://www.4sightracing.com/web/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=39&catid=11

p.s there's 3 pages so remember to click next page ;)

[ayrton senna 87]

wow scotty theres some good pics there, atlast we can see some of the action :p lippys driving position looks pretty cool!

EDIT : i cant get alot of them to work

[snewham]

what u mean?

[tristancliffe]

None of my 'dog ear' thing though....

And yeah, majority don't work here either... (just black areas, rather than pics). The preview thumbnails all work though...

[snewham]

going to upload them all later. bloody website lol :D

[Swifty]

some very kool photos scotty :)

[lippy]

lippys driving position looks pretty cool!

You're a better man then me then. Where am I?

[snewham]

ok some of the best ones:

pic 1: Will Dendy cruising along
pic 2: Scotty trying very hard to keep 3rd :D
pic 3: The 4Sight Racing Team (from left to right: Andyc, Swifty, W.Dendy, Scotty)

[snewham]

argh i can't manage attachments anymore?

[ayrton senna 87]

just an observation on the day. not on piccys! :oops:

scotty pls can u send me all of the pics in hi res?

[snewham]

Will Dendy Cruising:
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00001.JPG

Scotty trying to keep 3rd:
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00003.JPG
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00005.JPG

The 4Sight Racing Team (From left > Right: Andyc, Swifty, W.Dendy, Scotty)
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00014.JPG

The on board camera :D
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00015.JPG

Tristan in the chair ;)
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00016.JPG

Turn 1 :D
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00017.JPG

A view of everyone from above ;)
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00018.JPG

The Track:
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00019.JPG


Scawen puts the chair to the test:
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/ukmeet/CNV00020.JPG

[snewham]

if anyone wants hi-res versions pm me :D

[ayrton senna 87]

more captions :p

[Fordman]

YAY, footage off Camara and now on PC. 1 Problem.........ITS 5GB :yikes:

Divx it? and if so, codec 5 or 6?

Thanks

Fordie

PS - I only need to get this down to a 700mb CD to send to Tristan

[Tweaker]

Well is it sliced up? Nobody wants to watch something that just takes forever to get to a certain part :) (Because raw camera footage can be quite boring).

If not already, I would cut it up a bit to make a smaller size. And make two versions, high and low quality.

What is the total play length of 5GB?

[dUmAsS]

YAY, footage off Camara and now on PC. 1 Problem.........ITS 5GB :yikes:

stick it on a duel layer dvd :)

you shouldnt really want to try compress it because then we lose loads of quality on the 2nd compression

[Fordman]

Well is it sliced up? Nobody wants to watch something that just takes forever to get to a certain part :) (Because raw camera footage can be quite boring).

If not already, I would cut it up a bit to make a smaller size. And make two versions, high and low quality.

What is the total play length of 5GB?

Its raw Footage. I am sending it to Tristan to Cut / slice up. 5gb, is 22mins long. Its FULL DV Quality.

And don't have a DVD Burner

Fordie

[Tweaker]

Ahhh ok, well upload it to him or something :P

[Fordman]

Ahhh ok, well upload it to him or something :P
:ices_rofl

[dUmAsS]

ah 5gb for 22 mins. uber quality :D divx 6 it :thumb:

[SladiVadi]

Use Xvid. It's free.

[Fordman]

ah 5gb for 22 mins. uber quality :D divx 6 it :thumb:

Uber Quality, yes. Its full Screen, Full DV Quality. OK Divx 6 it is then :)

Thanks

[Bob Smith]

Use a bitrate calculator so that you don't waste any space on that CD! Probably best to aim for a couple of MB just to play safe. Files tend to be slightly oversized just when you don't want them to be (unless you use constant bitrate, but it's not the 90's anymore)

It could be useful to resize the image a bit, the video wouldn't need to be any larger than 640, that would help it compress better.

Depending on the grainyness of the image a noise filter could prove useful too. :)

[Fordman]

Just reading through this thread, and noticed something very very important was missed, so I will fill you in.

After receiving various phone calls about Will, Tristan and Scotty being homeless, they made a move to my hotel. Now I will try my best to describe what can only be perceived as one of the funniest moments.

You know in scary movies, when people walk across gravel, you here a slow slow quick quick slow foot steps. Well Will done this. I was crying with laughter by the time. And then Will poked his head around the wall, like playing peek a boo. Another moment when I wished my camara battery was working.

Anyway, onto a little snippets.

1st - The Cyberseat (http://www.4sightracing.com/lfs_meet/Cyberseat.wmv)

2nd - A little snippet of the karting (http://www.4sightracing.com/lfs_meet/karts.avi). The start, and into the Famous Turn 1, and Will and Swifties pitstop stratagy :)

Regards

Fordie

[ayrton senna 87]

best post ever :D

we were outside shifty's house, and we were talking about what to do. so then tristan said "we could see if fordman is still awake" so i said, "yea, i have his number" so i then preceeded to phone him.

tristan then said, "he will be pretty tired" so i quickly handed the phone over to tristan where he bluntly said to fordie "can we sleep on your floor" i cracked up laughing, and fordie was calling tristan various insults over the phone :D

ROFL great fun!

Just wait until the race report, some hillarious moments happened :D

[Fordman]

Just wait until the race report, some hillarious moments happened :D

Hmm What like Scotty throwing his toys out of the kart because he hit the barrier and had to wait for the marshel to turn him around. Sorry scotty, but i was in tears, and also, was on the brink of calling 999 as i thought u was fitting. Whats that poor steering wheel ever done to you :D

fordie was calling tristan various insults over the phone

Oh give me some credit, it was past 2am. I didn't say nothing he didn't deserve:)

[snewham]

lol :(

[Bob Smith]

1st - The Cyberseat (http://www.4sightracing.com/lfs_meet/Cyberseat.wmv)

2nd - A little snippet of the karting (http://www.4sightracing.com/lfs_meet/karts.avi). The start, and into the Famous Turn 1, and Will and Swifties pitstop stratagy :)

Just a tip - try de-interlacing the video. It will look better and compress better (so for the same bitrate, will look better still). Also means when I pause I should see something other than a load of lines (I can't work out which one is me!)

:)

[tristancliffe]

best post ever :D

we were outside shifty's house, and we were talking about what to do. so then tristan said "we could see if fordman is still awake" so i said, "yea, i have his number" so i then preceeded to phone him.

tristan then said, "he will be pretty tired" so i quickly handed the phone over to tristan where he bluntly said to fordie "can we sleep on your floor" i cracked up laughing, and fordie was calling tristan various insults over the phone :D

ROFL great fun!

Just wait until the race report, some hillarious moments happened :D

When we finally turned up at Fordies room, we all huddled in quietly. The lights were off, and we wanted to attract the least attention possible.

Suddenly, ThreeJump sat bolt upright, and I could just make out his eyes looking really wide (and possibly terrified) when he realised 3 extra guys were standing at the foot of his bed.
Then we turned the light on, and he went from being fairly scared (it could have been murderers) to absolutely f*****g petrified when he realised who it actually was!!!!

Again, I wish I had had a camera pointing at him at the precise moment, but alas it was not to be...

[Fordman]

Just a tip - try de-interlacing the video. It will look better and compress better (so for the same bitrate, will look better still). Also means when I pause I should see something other than a load of lines (I can't work out which one is me!)

:)

These was just done on the hop, to keep the natives happy. I am going to get Tristan the full version to him by the weekend hopefully.

[the_angry_angel]

You found your way back to the town center then? It looked like you were walking the wrong way..Lol, yeah it was completely in the wrong direction. First time I realised was when I was nearly on the M1 :doh:

I was in my own world completely. Think I ended up walking (once going in the right direction) for about 1 hour 45 minutes or so :D

Just looking over the thread since I've got back - some of the pics are pretty good :) T'was definately a good day :D

[rediske]

Great footage, fun to watch! :thumb:

When the video is done someday, I wonder if we hear Scawen and Victor talk in it?

Would like to hear their voices...

[ScHiZ]

Despite doctors orders... Hoe insisded on mainlining the gin again...

[mantis9]

lol Schiz :D

I did a little report here. (http://lfs-news.bluepixel.dk/default.asp?m=shownews&news_id=469)

[Bob Smith]

Why does it look like Victor is pinching Scawen's bum in that photo? Or is it just me? :p

You didn't use those photos in the end then Mantis9?

I don't think much really happened after the karting, just chatting, drinking, eating, quizzing Scawen, more drinking, more chatting, walking between pubs, getting stopped by somebody in a car wanting to know where roadworks where, finding a Victor look-a-like behind a bar, walking to a hotel meeting a pint stealing bouncer on the way, and finally more chatting before people finally started to disperse. So no, not much. :)

[the_angry_angel]

Great footage, fun to watch! :thumb:

When the video is done someday, I wonder if we hear Scawen and Victor talk in it?

Would like to hear their voices...
Unless Fordie magically recharged the camera, and brought it back into the pub without anyone noticing, im afraid not :(

It had to be recharged about half way through the karting, and after that it didnt survive til the prize presentation either :(

[mantis9]

You didn't use those photos in the end then Mantis9?

Nah, you couldnt read the names once I shrunk it down, so I thought if people are interested enough they will find them :) thanks anyway.

[CrazyICE]

That's all my pics (precious few I know, but I was busy!). I do have some from Whilton Park thingy.

Anyway guys - check this out. I know at least a couple of you will love it http://www.tristancliffe.f2s.com/camera_testing.wmv

Edit: oooooooh, 975. Thats 974 spams, and only 24 spams to go (on the assumption that 2 in a 1000 posts are constructive)...

this video doesn't work :(

nice photos....
must be coOL to meet lfs ppl and of course the devs...

[tristancliffe]

this video doesn't work :(

nice photos....
must be coOL to meet lfs ppl and of course the devs...

Whoops! In a moment of shear hysteria I must have deleted it from that ftp server. It's back on now, and should work (although I must stress it won't/can't be on there for ever - at some point I'll have to delete it, so don't post saying it's gone two years down the line :P)

[ayrton senna 87]

any news on the main vid? please? can u release an Alpha? please?

EDIT : nice report mantis! shame u didnt put a group photo with all the names on tho :(

[Fordman]

Whoops! In a moment of shear hysteria I must have deleted it from that ftp server. It's back on now, and should work (although I must stress it won't/can't be on there for ever - at some point I'll have to delete it, so don't post saying it's gone two years down the line :P)

Good, thx, needed that for the **cough** movie and also, read your PM's man :D

@Senna - Working on in. :D Its ready when its ready :D

[three_jump]

Its ready when its ready :D

What about a progress report? :trampolin

3j

[ayrton senna 87]

fordie, are u going to use my intro?

another little caption thingy.

[Fordman]

What about a progress report? :trampolin

3j

Its coming along nicely :razz:

[CrazyICE]

Whoops! In a moment of shear hysteria I must have deleted it from that ftp server. It's back on now, and should work (although I must stress it won't/can't be on there for ever - at some point I'll have to delete it, so don't post saying it's gone two years down the line :P)
thx!

hahahahaha, what a vid....
coOL....hehehe :)
think she likes him ;)

[ayrton senna 87]

i think she wonders why the hell im doing the thumbs up into a helmet :D

[Swifty]

me in action

[al heeley]

You can only just make out the figure climbing out of the kart, presumably to push it over the finish line.............

[Swifty]

al are u coming to the next meet?

[the_angry_angel]

lol thats a fantastic clip :D

[al heeley]

al are u coming to the next meet?
I'd love to, I used to race karts a bit when I was a kid.

[ayrton senna 87]

while u lot werent looking i swapped my Honda GX200 for a Ferrari V12.

[Swifty]

Sweet

[Bob Smith]

Cheesy, but made me smile. :)
Well timed.

[the_angry_angel]

lol :up: I like it :D

[Fordman]

Hi All,

Well here you go. Its Done. A little movie of the karting and various other bits.

You will need Divx to view it, and I am afriad in comes in at 85mb.

http://www.4players.de/rendersite.p...OWNLOADID=44840 (http://www.4players.de/rendersite.php?LAYOUT=download_info&world=lfs&DOWNLOADID=44840)

Thanks to GP4Flo for Hosting it

Best Regards

Fordie

[Tweaker]

Downloading now Fordman, many thanks :D

[AndyC]

Downloading now.. I'm sure all your hard work will be worth it.

[dUmAsS]

great vid! glad theres none of my bad driving in it :D

[AndyC]

Kool video, nice editing. But you see me loose 3rd place by .75 at the end :(.

But nice editing, good overtaking and racing. Shows how proffesional the racing was on that day.

Andy.

[tristancliffe]

LOL!!!

Nice movie! And I like my wooo at the end :D

Just a shame TAA couldn't get to more corners whilst the race was on, but I guess he wasn't allowed to randomly run across the track when he felt like it...

[the_angry_angel]

I was asked by the almighty bald owner of cart track, not to - although I was quite prepared to! :D

I'm really disappointed that I couldnt get the ceremony at the end too :(

Fordie:
I have 2 servers ready and waiting for mirroring! If you could give me a link (pm, or something), I'll download the film and put it up immediately.

A little off topic, but, Tristan I'm sorry if we constantly took the piss about you being a spammer - its ok, you can post! Sorry if I/we upset you :) (check his postcount average if you're confused!)

Edit:
See my post here http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=35356#post35356 for additional mirrors.

[Tweaker]

My favorite part...

so I made a short clip :P http://www.tweak.in/videos/Drunk_Hoe_Kart_Meet.wmv

[GP4Flo]

The video is now mirrored on the Live-for-Speed.de FTP:

http://www.4players.de/rendersite.php?LAYOUT=download_info&world=lfs&DOWNLOADID=44840

[Fordman]

My favorite part...

so I made a short clip :P http://www.tweak.in/videos/Drunk_Hoe_Kart_Meet.wmv

HA HA Didn't take you long :)

[ayrton senna 87]

I was asked by the almighty bald owner of cart track, not to - although I was quite prepared to!

must have been speaking to the race director guy, when i spoke to glen he said it was fine, shame glen wasnt running the event from the start :@

AWESOME vid btw love it!

Tristan's :thumb: WOO was superb

[the_angry_angel]

lol, and he told me it was just because his back hurt from that kart :D

Now I understand :D

[tristancliffe]

I spam therefore I am.

No worrys Karl - you're feeble piss takes can't stop meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:D

[Simon Savage]

Great video you guys are carrying a large amount of speed into certain corners!
Turn one is the most annoying corner i have never felt i have got that one perfect it always feels like i can take it faster.

and into the hairpin before the last two corners some hard braking and flicking there really shows it well with some great camera angles.

Infact all the camera angles were great!
well done!

[Bob Smith]

It's ok, if it weren't for Tristan I'd be having to put up with all this abuse. And what's with my connection? I've been downloading for an hour and I've only just reached 60MB....

[ayrton senna 87]

Great video you guys are carrying a large amount of speed into certain corners!
Turn one is the most annoying corner i have never felt i have got that one perfect it always feels like i can take it faster.

and into the hairpin before the last two corners some hard braking and flicking there really shows it well with some great camera angles.

Infact all the camera angles were great!
well done!

thanks for your comments, its TAA we have to thank, im glad to see it wasnt ONLY turn 1:D

anyway, its best not to go flying round turn 1 man, its best to take a slower entry and go faster along the straight. hope to see u there 1 day!

[the_angry_angel]

lol, I wont rub it in that its taken the server less than 5 minutes to get to 100% then :D (I gave up on my original plan to download to home then ftp from home to server).

Mirrors:
Primary: http://mirror.theangryangel.co.uk/LFSKarting.zip
Secondary: http://swn.lordpc.net/taa/LFSKarting.zip

I'd rather you hammer the primary mirror, tbh, but if its slow, feel free to switch.

Edit:
Will, I really wanted to get into the middle section, theres a corner with a tiny little loop I could've gotten into, but I believe the words were - "do you want to die?"

Edit^2:
Suppose I better download the damn thing myself now.. :o

[Fordman]

lol, I wont rub it in that its taken the server less than 5 minutes to get to 100% then :D (I gave up on my original plan to download to home then ftp from home to server).

Mirrors:
Primary: http://mirror.theangryangel.co.uk/LFSKarting.zip
Secondary: http://swn.lordpc.net/taa/LFSKarting.zip

I'd rather you hammer the primary mirror, tbh, but if its slow, feel free to switch.

Edit:
Will, I really wanted to get into the middle section, theres a corner with a tiny little loop I could've gotten into, but I believe the words were - "do you want to die?"

Edit^2:
Suppose I better download the damn thing myself now.. :o

Thanks TAA. We sort of new it would be a massive download, but maybe not this big :D

[the_angry_angel]

Hey, you never know, a mad rush my ensue tomorrow ;)

Now I've watched it, its a bit of a shame I couldnt get at more corners :( I really would've liked to get into that corner I was on about before - would've had some great footage!

I think I'm gonna be racing next year though ;) Looks like you all had too much fun :D

[keiran]

Awesome clip and the ending is class :D

Will have to start saving the pennys for the next one would be great fun :)

Keiran

[ayrton senna 87]

ROFL check out 2:03, u can see tristans little middle finger popping up at TAA :D

[the_angry_angel]

And the next lap round he get the 2 back from me :D (not on film, sorry)

I think someone on the otherside of the track was thinking I was doing it to them tho :o

Ah I've just watched it again. Damn - it was a good day :D
Just wish I'd go more footage of the cyberseat, the dev's, and just about everything :( Oh well, better luck next time :D

[Anarchi-H]

Cool vid; Looks like a lot of fun :D

... but that dude with the chequered flag needs to slow down a bit. He'll get an RSI like that :p

[keiran]

Scawen ...

[tristancliffe]

Lol Keiran, thats a good un!

[keiran]

I'll upload the original shot as he is turning a right hand corner while trying to get out the kart by the looks of it :razz:

Keiran

[the_angry_angel]

lol - I'm kinda glad I was behind the camera now - who knows what images I could've been edited into :D

Out of interest Fordie, was there any footage of Scawen doing this impression of Victor racing? I think I might've got the end of it, but I wasnt sure :)

[Fordman]

Scawen ...

http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2933

Big Mac to go, and take ur time. 4th place is miles behind :D

[tristancliffe]

? Did he just post that already ?

[Fordman]

? Did he just post that already ?

He just posted Scawen. Not that he had about 4 laps to make his order, then another 3 laps to eat and share with Victor LOL

[tristancliffe]

Ohok. :D

[Fordman]

@ Tristan Excuse to spam and up your totals LOL


@everybody else. You have to give major thanks to TAA. Look at it this way, he was using a camcorder that didn;t belong to him, and well, some footage he got, even i was shocked and said to myself, never again :)

He done an excellent job and maybe with his own camcorder he might of taken a few more risks.

But next time, i will be camaraman with my cam, and well, I have excellent life insurance or at least the wife tells me :)

[Simon Savage]

Seems like the helmet came was a bit distorted :-(

What sort of camera was that thing anyway?? just a really little camera or a really expensive little camera?

[tristancliffe]

Just a little camera, screwed onto a small strip of steel, and screwed onto the plastic lip of Will's hat. I think it should have been mounted on rubber to damp vibrations, but we didn't know that until afterwards.

The first time we saw the camera output was at about 2pm, and it was perfect - but we were carrying the helmet, and it was only about 30ft from the receiver. On track, it was moving a lot, and at times went nearly 200ft from the receiver.

Next year we hope to spend a bit more on the camera, and have the reciever somewhere more central (or at least without any walls in the way).

Sorry

[Chris_Kerry]

Just a little camera, screwed onto a small strip of steel, and screwed onto the plastic lip of Will's hat. I think it should have been mounted on rubber to damp vibrations, but we didn't know that until afterwards.

The first time we saw the camera output was at about 2pm, and it was perfect - but we were carrying the helmet, and it was only about 30ft from the receiver. On track, it was moving a lot, and at times went nearly 200ft from the receiver.

Next year we hope to spend a bit more on the camera, and have the reciever somewhere more central (or at least without any walls in the way).

Sorry

Don't say sorry, it was the best you could do. The quality's not a problem, you can still get the essence of Will's driving. I think everyone appreciates the effort that went in for the meet. It's great to see what's happened.

[ayrton senna 87]

i would have mounted it on rubber but because of the weight of the camera (almost nothing) it would still vibrate, and wouldnt get damped atall. the only reason why there was the break up is because the computer was inside, and like tristan said 200m away from the furthest part of the circuit.

there were hardly any vibrations, simply i didnt think of getting tristan to put his comp in the pits :(

sorry! would have been good to have seen fordmans middle finger popping up when i was behind him :D

[ScHiZ]

Fantastic job on the vid guys.. really took me back there.. without the backache

[tristancliffe]

great vid! glad theres none of my bad driving in it :D

There is! At the start, and you being nudged out of the way on the kink just after the start-finish line.

He's number 10 (as I am) in the vid if you didn't know...

[kevman_101]

Hey guys. Just took a look at the video and it looked like it was amazing fun. Wish there wasnt an Ocean between us or i woulda probably went :D

[Simon Savage]

yeah still not too bad you can see where the driver is going

amazing you could get shots at all really

[LawVS]

cool vid guys. It was indeed a great event and hope we could do another meet again perhaps....a bit more south perhaps? :P

[tristancliffe]

I think there are currently 3 tracks on the shortlist for next year:

Whilton Mill: Only about 20 minutes from Northampton, so towards the middle ish of England. Nice track, competative prices apparently, and reasonable karts... Can see the whole track. Facilities not brilliant though... Need cars afterwards to get to nightlife...

Daytona, Milton Keynes: About half an hour from Northampton, slightly more southern. Great track layout, but the track itself is getting rough around the edges. Also, spectators can only see about 2 or 3 corners out of about 15, and they aren't especially exciting corners either. Very good 'conference' facilities. Easy to get to nightlife afterwards I think.

Buckmore Park, Kent: Near Dartford (Tunnel) and Brands Hatch. On a motorway, so not easy to walk to a pub afterwards, and we'd all need to get there via car (or possibly a bus?). Brilliant track, with Twin Engine prokarts (I forget what Daytona and Whilton offer), although the conference facilites aren't quite as good as Daytona. Also, it's stuck in the south east of England, so some people might have problems justifying the journey...


Can any one think of other, preferably outdoor, karting tracks that would be suitable? If so post suggestions, and a little description of why they might be a good bet.

[ayrton senna 87]

dayona and whilton are twin engine karts aswell. daytona nor buckmore nor whilton have 'confrence' facilities like GP did (that we didnt use) but whilton and daytona have a bar and vending machines etc. the bar at whilton sells very cheap drink aswell. buckmore is the best track by far, but the fact that its miles from anywhere is kinda annoying...

obviously people will suggest places that are nearest to them, but we need to be fair :)

daytona is 210 for 2 hours
whilton is 160 for 2 hours
buckmore is 147 for 1.5 hours

[dUmAsS]

whilton seems good. but how much of a drive is it to get to the nightlife?

[ayrton senna 87]

theres a bar at the track which will be available until 1am and its very nice, in the style of an old mill (its in an old mill, hence whilton mill) which is a few metres from the track. its a great place to chat and play pool and sit outside/whatever. we can then go to northampton in a few taxi minibus things which is about £4 a peice last time i went. its not quite as good of a track as byckmore, but there arent many pubs in the middle of the motorway, and buckmore is a little more costly...

[franky500]

I think there are currently 3 tracks on the shortlist for next year:

Whilton Mill: Only about 20 minutes from Northampton, so towards the middle ish of England. Nice track, competative prices apparently, and reasonable karts... Can see the whole track. Facilities not brilliant though... Need cars afterwards to get to nightlife...

Daytona, Milton Keynes: About half an hour from Northampton, slightly more southern. Great track layout, but the track itself is getting rough around the edges. Also, spectators can only see about 2 or 3 corners out of about 15, and they aren't especially exciting corners either. Very good 'conference' facilities. Easy to get to nightlife afterwards I think.

Buckmore Park, Kent: Near Dartford (Tunnel) and Brands Hatch. On a motorway, so not easy to walk to a pub afterwards, and we'd all need to get there via car (or possibly a bus?). Brilliant track, with Twin Engine prokarts (I forget what Daytona and Whilton offer), although the conference facilites aren't quite as good as Daytona. Also, it's stuck in the south east of England, so some people might have problems justifying the journey...


Can any one think of other, preferably outdoor, karting tracks that would be suitable? If so post suggestions, and a little description of why they might be a good bet.
there is one in hertford not a million miles away from me.. i will try and get up there in the next couple of months and check the place out. (never been there before but i know of it...) and i believe nightlife is a short walk away.

the one in milton keynes sounds good. would be far easier for me to get to (surprizingly..). i should also have a car by the next meet so i would not mind being a driver for some london (ish) area people. (assuming that the next one wont happen till atleast June / July)

[Simon Savage]

Im trying to get a job at Wilton, the track is fun i know a couple of people who work there, the small track is a bit thin but a fast track it has some sceary corners on it!

I dont think its possible to arrange arrive and drive on the big track they have there, ive been on it twice when i got my licence its a fantastic track and a difficult one too.

[keiran]

Boyndie up here in Scotland :) They have pro karts and am sure they would hold a endurance race :)

Keiran

edit// Heres a picture of it http://www.harb85.freeserve.co.uk/gallery/ga1.jpg (well thats what it was like when I use to race karts now its been done up and looks like a far nicer track to drive :D

[the_angry_angel]

assuming that the next one wont happen till atleast June / JulyWhat?!? You mean it isnt next weekend? :o :D

[ayrton senna 87]

haha like i said people will always go for the one most local (proved above). the only reason i decided to go to GP was because i thought the 1st meet would only be a few of us local lads...

BTW all i have looked into brummie wheels and red lodge, brummie was stupidly expensive (and its in birmingham) and red lodge dont have twin engined pro karts. thought of a track called 3 sisters in manchester (schiz wont have far to go :D) but its a little out of the way for most people to go, and the airports arent great around there i think. really we are looking at midlands/london outdoor tracks with twin engine karts...

[franky500]

really we are looking at midlands/london outdoor tracks with twin engine karts...

i know a couple of good tracks in cyprus if thats any good :D

[ayrton senna 87]

tracks in cyprus arent really very useful for a UK meet